Kay's Journal, 9/18 - Reaper Errant #011

 Treasure: 

• 4 art objects, religious idols, etc. @25 GP each
• Potion of Healing
• 2700 copper (54 lbs)
• 1100 silver (22 lbs)
• 80 gold (1.6 lbs)

We were back in the mushroom cavern. A devil had been teleported back with us, right over by CornCob and Fathom. We drew weapons and went at it right away, while the mushroom queen watched. You’d think she might have been at least somewhat interested in getting the devil out of her territory, but she must have been more interested in testing us. Or just the spectacle, who knows?

In any case, we seemed to be doing pretty good against the devil, and then it…disappeared. Lovely. The mushroom queen said that it was loose in the world now. However, she’s happy with the results of our trip. Oh goody! She gestured for Fathom to give her the dagger, which Fathom did.

Here it comes. The mushroom queen said we had done so well on our trip to hell, she feels indebted to us now, and that while she understood we want to do good in the world, there might be more she could do. There’s an item out there that she needs taken from one town to another, and while we’re there, maybe we can help resolve some kind of conflict that’s happening in the area.

Awesome. So, she thinks she owes us, and to pay off the debt, she wants us to do another job for her, and maybe while we’re there we can do some other stuff for ourselves. She gave us directions to through the Twylen Pass, roughly north of where we are in the cave, to a lake community around the three sisters. From there go through Pinebrook to the north to a port town.

She gave Fathom back the dagger to use to track her item, which she thinks is probably at the bottom of one of the lakes in the Three Sisters region. Lovely. She also gave us 2 mountaineering packs, some coin, and some rope, and sent us on our way.

This seems like a pretty bad deal to me, and Gooseneck also has doubts. Seems to me we could just head up north and go deal with the problems going on without doing Mushroom Lady’s task. We discussed, and decided to do the job.

We headed on through the mountains to the pass, following a couple of elk. CornCob and Pujol managed to get it to give them a ride. Nice. 

Towards the end of the day, I saw a small humanoid riding a large dog/wolf thing. Then I saw more of them. It looked like an ambush, so I called ahead to the elk riders to hold up. The elk didn’t seem to get it, though, and trucked right on in to the ambush spot.

So, then we were fighting goblins and their pet wolves. It was a rough fight, but after a while we defeated them…but not without most of us getting hurt. CornCob cast a spell that healed us all. We searched the goblins and the area around them, and found a surprising amount of coin. We’ll be in good shape when we get to town…if we can carry it all.